Regarding The Tea Party

[Curtland1015]

How sad they all seem.

How confused and lost they must feel at this stage in history. The president is BLACK! GAYS are on the television! MEXICAN babies outnumber white babies! I'm going to be in the minority soon and I'm losing my religion!

The country is changing so fast. Suddenly, THEY feel like the ones being persecuted. THEY feel like the outsider. The world is passing them by and they are scared to death. Scared of what? Change. Progress. Anything different than what they were raised to think.

Now people are looking at them like they're the outcasts; they are the one that don't fit. The ones that are being mocked for being different, and, surprisingly, it doesn't feel so good.

So they do the only thing they think they can do, they gather together in a group and as one demand their interests be looked after! They REFUSE to be persecuted just for being who they are!

The tragic irony of this is of course lost on them. They don't see that their bigotry and fear have been hurting others for decades. They only see that it is no fun when it happens to them.

They also don't see that their fight for equal representation isn't the same as that of those groups brought together by their race, color, or natural sexual urges. It is not a fight for equal footing.

It is in fact the exact opposite. Their cause is an unjust one because their cause is keeping that true equality from happening. It isn't seeking a balance, but seeking to keep an imbalance intact. It is a fight to keep that one last bit of power they still do have. It is a rage against the machine of change.

They have taken their fears, scribbled them inside a bible and wrapped that bible in an American flag. ...God said THIS! ...America stands for THAT! When all they really mean to say is... I'm scared. I'm scared the world is leaving me behind.

That is sad. There is a real tragedy in that fear.

But like all fear of change, I believe when that change actually does take hold, the fear will regress. People will grow through it, and eventually everyone will wonder what all that worry was really for.

This Tea Party, I believe, is a lone stubborn rock in the middle of a flowing river of change. Desperately trying not to be swayed down that scary, unknown bend. Trying to stick to the foundation of a "simpler, older way" that never really existed.

But America has always been about change and revolution. Like that river, it is when we stop moving that we grow stagnant. We as a people should never slow down. Progressing forward has always been more our speed. It's when we find the best in us.

If we let those stubborn little rocks get in our way, we would truly be "damned".





Yes, I ended on a terrible pun.

[Populist_Prole]

1. That's pretty much it

They are only being marginalized by natural demographic shifts, but in their paranoia they think it's orchestrated by somebody/something. Even if they admit ( inside ) that they are paranoid, they are still all too aware that if they don't stop it from happening now, the slippery slope will be steeper and more slippery. Their last desperate defense: If they don't do it now, they never will.

What it must be like to be that deluded...............

[lunatica]

2. The rest of us will treat them far better than they ever treated us

Maybe they're afraid they'll get the 'minority' treatment they dished out.

[Curtland1015]

4. I honestly do think that is part of it.

"I know how terrible people in the minority are treated! I'm the one that treated them that way!"

It's like they're flinching before the blow.

[99Forever]

3. Nicely stated.

Thanks.

[meow2u3]

5. The Tea Party is just sore that they're rapidly losing their unearned privileges

Teabaggers are playing the persecuted victim because of their overblown sense of entitlement. They feel entitled to the privilege of not having to abide by laws and rules that apply to everybody else. They think no one else except them and those who look and act like them have constitutional rights, so, in their twisted minds, they feel persecuted by those who are demanding the rights the teabaggers' ancestors have wrongly and unjustly taken from them.

Teabaggers' call privilege freedom and the loss of privilege the loss of freedom; in other words, they equate freedom with unearned privilege.

[vinny9698]

6. It is the 1% using media to scare them

Nothing is going to happen to anyone. Most people live in their own neighborhoods and are to busy with everyday life to go bother some poor white folks. Most minorities actual sympathize with them, because we are all in the same plight, being screwed by the 1%.
Once they realize they are being played they will come around. But they are so hypocritical, receiving food stamps, demanding FEMA money, on social security, medicare and yet demanding those programs be cut.